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The Syria News Wire is written from Damascus and London. It was the fourth Syrian blog to appear on the internet – back in 2004. It is a Lonely Planet favourite, award nominated, Toot-ified blog, which gets about 15,000 hits a month.

Click on any of the logos in the sidebar (on the right) to see some of the press coverage about the Syria News Wire – from the Telegraph, through to Syria Today.

In 2008, Damascus became the Arab Capital of Culture. The year was packed full of events. Every month, a programme was published – but it didn’t hit the streets until half the month had passed.

In Damascus, that doesn’t matter. We find out what’s happening by word of mouth. And the same goes for news, or plans for the city’s development.

This site puts some of those whispers on to the net.

News from the streets of Damascus, and beyond.

Images:

This is a guide to the images used across the Syria News Wire.

OLD CITY

On the front page: the rebirth of Medhat Pasha, in the Old City of Damascus.

SOUQOn the about/history/images pages: spices in Souq Al Bouzariya, Damascus Old City.OCCUPIED GOLAN HEIGHTSOn the monthly archive pages: the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Israel has occupied the Syrian territory since 1967. The photo was taken from the Syrian city of Quneitra, which was liberated in 1973. You are looking at the barbed wire fence which marks the start of the occupation. 20,000 Syrians are trapped behind this fence, separated from their families for a generation. Thousands more live as refugees in Damascus and Aleppo.

This photo was originally used across the whole of the Syria News Wire from Nov 2008 to May 2009.

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U.S. sends light weapons to “moderate” insurgents in Syria, and Congress has secretly assured that the delivery is financed several months.
It reveals American and European security officials to Reuters.
The weapons are primarily sent to non-Islamist groups in the southern part of Syria via Jordan. Deliveries contains several light weapons, but also more powerful things, such as missiles that are specifically designed to hit and destroy military vehicles.
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money for arms supplies are sold on the U.S. budget for 2014, and approval was voted through in Congress behind closed doors.
It is unclear when exactly the vote took place, but funding for the Department of Defense was voted through in December.
The seemingly constant flow of U.S. weapons across the Syrian border marks a change from last summer when U.S. military aid to the Syrian rebels were put on hold because of the fear that the weapons would end up in the hands of Islamic militants.
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An anonymous U.S. official with knowledge of the latest developments told Reuters that both intelligence agencies as members of Congress are now more confident that the weapons falling into the hands of those who are called “moderate” insurgents, and not militant jihadists.
It was alleged that the moderate groups have managed to gain influence in the southern part of Syria and oust groups with ties to the terrorist network al-Qaeda. Islamists dominate the other hand, in the north and east.
Neither the U.S. government or intelligence agencies have wanted to comment on queries from Reuters.
Peace negotiations in Geneva
information gets out, just as representatives of both the Syrian government and opposition negotiating peace with the UN Special Envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, in the Swiss city of Geneva.
The parties are reportedly far apart, but have been agreed on little things.For example, get women and children apparently allowed to leave the war-torn city of Homs, which is controlled by rebels but surrounded by the Syrian army.
READ ALSO Syrian peace talks going again in deadlock
At the same time seems a deal to allow humanitarian organizations providing relief to Homs’ population to be so imminent that the UN has made a convoy ready so that it can move in as soon as a temporary ceasefire is agreed.

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